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The house is owned by Jammal Said, a Lebanese-Nigerian working as a civil engineer who runs his construction company in Abuja. Born in Jos, he was inspired by his wife Laiz Said's passion for travel when envisioning the house. [2] [3] [4] He promised to build a plane-shaped home for her as "a symbol of their love". He spent years searching for ...
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Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.
Mbari is a visual art form practiced by the Igbo people in southeast Nigeria consisting of a sacred two-story house constructed as a propitiatory rite. [22] Mbari houses of the Owerri -Igbo, which are large opened-sided square planned shelters contain many life-sized, painted figures (sculpted in mud to appease the Alusi (deity) and Ala , the ...
Lagoon City-Twin Towers - Adeleke/Yamasaki Lagoon City - Aerial Shots Lagoon City - Architectural Plans Lagoon City - Lagoon Side View. The original Banana Island construction project entitled Lagoon City was the brainchild of the late Chief Adebayo Adeleke, a University of London trained Civil Engineer (MICE), and CEO of City Property Development Ltd.
Kerala has started an initiative of public housing called Life which is a part of their welfare mission, Nava Kerala Mission which aims to be one of the biggest public housing initiatives undertaken on a state level in India is schemed to build houses for an estimated 4.32 lakh (432,000) families in Kerala who do not own any land or houses. The ...
Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street. Octagon house: a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler; Stilt house: is a house built on stilts above a body of water or the ground (usually in swampy areas prone to flooding).
The Hausa people predominantly dwell in the humid Sahel and Savannah zones of Central West Africa up to the southern boundary of the Sahara. [citation needed] Pre-colonial Hausa architecture found in Hausaland was influenced by cultural and environmental elements as dwellings were constructed from earthy and vegetation materials found in the surroundings, the materials are then used to build ...